'Hair' update: Tribe joins "CUT IN" tomorrow

It was announced last week that the Hair tribe will take part in Bumble and bumble's "CUT IN" to benefit the efforts to clean up the oil spill along the gulf coast tomorrow from 12-4 p.m. at Bumble and bumble's Uptown location (146 East 56th Street, between 3rd and Lexington). According to BroadwayWorld.com:

During this time, Bumble and bumble stylists will be on hand to give free hair-cuts to attendees. This event is open to the public. The hair trimmings will be donated to Matter of Trust, an environmental non-profit that has helped clean up oil spills since 1998 by reusing donated hair clippings from hair salons, barber shops, pet groomers, and wool farmers. Stuffing this donated hair into donated nylon stockings, this organization is creating highly absorbent booms to help contain the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tribe members will be at the event and Hair tickets will be raffled every hour.

Elisabeth Vincentelli of The New York Post recently reviewed Hair for the newspaper. Below is what she had to say about Ace Young and Diana:

"Hair" is so ensemble-driven that "names" are irrelevant, but let's start with them anyway because there's now two "American Idol" alumni in the show. Ace Young's Berger lacks Will Swenson's dyonisian bravado, and strains to keep up with the beat on faster songs like "Donna." On the other hand, he does feel as if he could actually be in high school, and exudes a playful trickster's charm. As Sheila, Diana DeGarmo (an "Idol" runner-up in 2004) pushes a little too much. Her "Easy to Be Hard" lacks vulnerability and serves merely as a pretext for harsh "Idol"-isms. I wasn't feeling Sheila's pain there, just her need to project to the rafters.

And the show's "Love Out Loud" auctions to benefit the Fresh Air Fund came to a close last Wednesday, May 19. The auction prize featuring lunch with Diana was the first one completed back in March.

Diana performs "Easy to Be Hard" on Arbor Day

Diana performed at the OneMillionTreesNYC event for Bette Middler last Friday in honor of Arbor Day, in what turned out to be a very windy day. Despite the wind, Diana sang "Easy to Be Hard" with Lon Hoyt accompanying her on piano. Watch the performance below:

Diana has also asked fans to donate to the American Red Cross's disaster relief fund for the people of Nashville and surrounding areas that are coping with the deadly flood. She posted a link on her Facebook page to an article on Nashville.About.com detailing how people can help.